There are three abandoned stations between Baker Street
and Finchley Road
on the Metropolitan Line. They were replaced by two stations on
the Bakerloo
Line's Stanmore branch (now part of the Jubilee Line) to speed
up the
journey times of Metropolitan Line trains.

Lords station, the first one north from Baker Street,
was originally named St.John's
Wood Road (as seen on the map below), renamed St.John's Wood in
1925, and
finally renamed Lords only five months before its closure.

The line shown on the map to the left of the Metropolitan
Line is the mainline out of Marylebone.

The emergency door at surface level, early 2004.
This is in Lodge Road at the southern end of the platforms. The station buildings (the
second one was opened in 1924) stood in St. John's Wood Road, at the northern
end of the platforms (opposite Lords cricket ground).

The hotel built over the top of the station seems
to change its name on a regular basis. It is now the Danubius
Hotel (Aug 2005). When it was the Ramada Plaza, planning permission
was put in to build a glass roofed communications building at
the site of these emergency doors. Presumably either the planning
permission failed or there has been a change of plan, as the
building works should have been finished by now.

Both Lords and Marlborough Road stations were replaced by St.John's
Wood station on the deep level Bakerloo line, although St.John's
Wood is much nearer to Marlborough Road.

This is the covered section of the northbound platform
looking north.

(photo: 2005)

The northbound platform looking north again but from the right
hand side of the pillars visible in the photograph above.

The station bears little resemblance to old photographs of it
when it was open - the overall roof has been replaced by the
supports for the road and hotel above it. There is some evidence
in the brickwork at least (northward view of the southbound platform).

In its operating days, it would have not looked dissimilar to
Marlborough Road (the next station, also abandoned). There is
at least enough of that one left structurally for it to be obvious
that it was a station.

Looking northwards.

There are two sections of platform on the northbound side. This
one (where the most of the platform photos above were taken from)
and one further northwards. The stairs lead up to the emergency
exit door at the foot of the hotel above the station.